tepine's
Translation: Bedbug
Part of Speech: noun animate
Meanings:
- bedbug
Example of word used in a sentence:
- Text: Psa'tes tepine's gesgmnaq nemiawt.Translation: You'll smell a bedbug before you see it.Recording: Recording by jnw 🔉
Pronunciation Guide: de·bi·nees
Alternate Grammatical Forms:
- tepine'sg -- bedbugs -- (plural)
- tepine'sl -- a bedbug -- (fourth person)
Borrowed Word: from French, des punaises
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- go'gwejijua'pi : spider web
- gulpatgij : maggot
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- jujij : insect / crawling creature / bug
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- musoq : horse fly
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- piggwit : flea infested
- pis : flea
- pugteweie'j : cricket / black cricket
- pugto'guome'j : cricket
- sasqaiejit : crab louse
- sismo'qone'j : sugar ant / honey ant
- soqomgwewj : grasshopper / job hopper
- squ : leach
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- tap'tane'j : potato bug
- tepine's : bedbug
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- wa'gw : louse
- wasoqowi'j : firefly
- wenaqje'wj : grasshopper (Nova Scotia)
- weti : worm
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